kylie_koyote wrote:Those are marvelous, thank you for sharing. I very much enjoyed those.

And a Big Ditto from me, thanks TS! It's been many yrs since I read the "By Jove" biography, but I recall a lot of 55 Squadron info being detailed in this. WEJ looks positively chubby in 1 photo, I hope there was room in the pilot's cockpit, lol.

They've been working together for so long that each seems to know by a sort of telepathy when another is in trouble. One never seems to get them together. Get one & the others come after him. To give the devil his due they make a formidable team.

It was all new info for me but I am permanently interested in WEJ's flying, both war time and what he got up to post war. One of the pilots in the group photo looked about 12 years old. I also enjoyed the detail in the article of one of the squadrons raids and a letter from WEJ's friend, standing next to him in the gropushot, to his mother announcing his being missing.

"Spare my days! Who wants to be true to life? Why read about what you can see going on around you any day of the week?"